This paper employs fixed effect quantile regression techniques to study the effects of technological relatedness on firm productivity and to investigate whether the size of those effects varies for low and high performing firms. Next, we consider how changes in the local industrial mix brought...

This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on Han-Uyghur inequality by comparing Han and Uyghur migrants in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Drawing from a survey of 30 sites of service activities and approximately 600 respondents in Urumqi, conducted in 2008, the authors argue that in addition to...

The tremendous changes in China's development philosophy and regional economies during the last two decades have carved out selectively new locations of development across the nation. While politicians heatedly debate the acceptable levels of regional inequality, most scholarly studies focus on...

Books reviewed: Meric S. Gertler. Manufacturing Culture: The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice Jamie Peck and Henry Waichung Yeung. Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives Ake E. Andersson, Borje Johansson, and William P. Anderson. The Economics of...